In Tim Winton's first collection of short stories, the Australian outback he paints, though filled with the trappings of home and family, is often harsh and disturbing, inhabited by isolated, ...(Read More)

To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East, a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt, Portugal, Denmark, and France; in response, the United States ...(Read More)

(Part of the original Foundation Trilogy, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series) The Foundation is in tatters, conquered by a mutant of incredible power known as the Mule, in ...(Read More)

In repressive 1691 Florence, sculptor Gaetano Zummo is commissioned by the Grand Duke to create a life-size Venus out of wax, in this 2013 novel by the author of The Insult and The Book of ...(Read More)

Sent out to pre-revolutionary Russia by the Foreign Office, Jerry Lawrence and Henry Bohun find themselves unlikely traveling companions, in this 1919 novel from the author of The Wooden Horse ...(Read More)

"Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise—a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of partner, ...(Read More)

This fourth Jackalian chronicle by internet and science fiction visionary Stephen Hunt—set in an alternate England where clockwork, steam power, and magic make everything work—is what Hunt called his ...(Read More)

In this 1994 collection, selected from the Nobel Laureate's first three decades of writing, Alice Munro lets the seemingly quotidian lives of people in the cities, small towns, and farmsteads of ...(Read More)